Texas UIC Class VI Update: Proposed Amendments to 16 TAC Ch. 5

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In Volume 48, Number 26 of the Texas Register, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) published proposed amendments to 16 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 5 (relating to Carbon Dioxide and related storage activities). These proposed rules are essential to Texas’ push to obtain permitting and enforcement primacy for Class VI Underground Injection Control (UIC) wells and are in direct response to the comments of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Texas’ primacy application that was submitted on December 19, 2022.